Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939

The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of research that examines the relationship between peace efforts and nationalism. The relationship will be studied from perspectives of educa- tional history and history didactics. More precisely, by focusing on history education, this dis...

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Main Author: Nilsson, Ingela
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier 2015
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-umu-990482015-03-03T05:00:19ZNationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939sweNilsson, IngelaUmeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierUmeå : Umeå universitet2015nationalismpacifisminternationalismpatriotic pacifismpeace and warpeace educationideological hegemonygendermanliness/masculinitycollective identityhistory educationthe Interwar erahistory textbook revisionnationalismpacifisminternationalismpatriotisk pacifismkrig och fredfredsfostranideologisk hegemonigenusmanlighet/maskulinitetkollektiv identitethistorieundervisningmellankrigstidenhistorieläroboksrevisionerMatilda WidegrenGreta StendahlHerman SöderberghElisabet EurénTheodor BlomqvistIngvard NielsenSvenska skolornas fredsföreningNordiska lärares fredsförbundkväkarnaFörbundet för kristet samhällslivIKFFThe overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of research that examines the relationship between peace efforts and nationalism. The relationship will be studied from perspectives of educa- tional history and history didactics. More precisely, by focusing on history education, this disserta- tion will analyse the demands for a comprehensive peace education in schools that were put forward by a long list of actors in the Western world during the interwar period, and as such discuss to what extent, and in what ways, nationalism influenced the content and design of this peace education. The main theoretical framework of this thesis is the concept of nationalism, and the position of nationalism as a hegemonic ideology during the first half of the 20th century. Another central un- derstanding is the assumption that the educational system, specifically history education, played a central role in creating, maintaining and strengthening collective identities as well as the prevailing ideological hegemony. The empirical investigation has been limited to studying the demands and ideas presented by Nordic peace educators, mainly The Swedish School Peace League (SSF), regar- ding peace-educating history teaching. As such, the empirical aim has been to investigate the SSF’s views on the relationship between nationalism and peace education, i.e., how internationalism and pacifism were to be taught, as well as how this understanding affected the League’s ideas regarding history teaching. The results have also been analysed from a gender perspective, based on the as- sumption that contemporary notions of gender in relation to nationalism, war and peace in different ways had an impact upon the content and format of the proposed peace education.         The study shows that the SSF regarded nationalism as the very foundation and prerequisite for any peace education. SSF thus tried to reconcile nationalism, internationalism and pacifism under one and the same ideological approach; “patriotic pacifism”, which in turn strongly influenced the endorsed peace-educating history teaching. Furthermore, the study highlights boys’ central role in the peace education project, which essentially set the long-term goal of creating a new pacifist and internationally oriented male ideal and yet, despite these aims, continued an intimate association with the “national”. Key concepts in SSF’s peace education were unite and supplement, and thereby they redefined central meanings of hegemonic nationalism. SSF’s patriotic pacifism and its impact on the association's demands for a peace-educating history teaching can best be described as an “intra-hegemonic counterforce”.  Historia utan gräns: Den internationella historieboksrevisionen 1919-2009Doctoral thesis, monographinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-99048urn:isbn:978-91-7601-210-9Umeå Studies in History and Education ; 9application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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topic nationalism
pacifism
internationalism
patriotic pacifism
peace and war
peace education
ideological hegemony
gender
manliness/masculinity
collective identity
history education
the Interwar era
history textbook revision
nationalism
pacifism
internationalism
patriotisk pacifism
krig och fred
fredsfostran
ideologisk hegemoni
genus
manlighet/maskulinitet
kollektiv identitet
historieundervisning
mellankrigstiden
historieläroboksrevisioner
Matilda Widegren
Greta Stendahl
Herman Söderbergh
Elisabet Eurén
Theodor Blomqvist
Ingvard Nielsen
Svenska skolornas fredsförening
Nordiska lärares fredsförbund
kväkarna
Förbundet för kristet samhällsliv
IKFF
spellingShingle nationalism
pacifism
internationalism
patriotic pacifism
peace and war
peace education
ideological hegemony
gender
manliness/masculinity
collective identity
history education
the Interwar era
history textbook revision
nationalism
pacifism
internationalism
patriotisk pacifism
krig och fred
fredsfostran
ideologisk hegemoni
genus
manlighet/maskulinitet
kollektiv identitet
historieundervisning
mellankrigstiden
historieläroboksrevisioner
Matilda Widegren
Greta Stendahl
Herman Söderbergh
Elisabet Eurén
Theodor Blomqvist
Ingvard Nielsen
Svenska skolornas fredsförening
Nordiska lärares fredsförbund
kväkarna
Förbundet för kristet samhällsliv
IKFF
Nilsson, Ingela
Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
description The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of research that examines the relationship between peace efforts and nationalism. The relationship will be studied from perspectives of educa- tional history and history didactics. More precisely, by focusing on history education, this disserta- tion will analyse the demands for a comprehensive peace education in schools that were put forward by a long list of actors in the Western world during the interwar period, and as such discuss to what extent, and in what ways, nationalism influenced the content and design of this peace education. The main theoretical framework of this thesis is the concept of nationalism, and the position of nationalism as a hegemonic ideology during the first half of the 20th century. Another central un- derstanding is the assumption that the educational system, specifically history education, played a central role in creating, maintaining and strengthening collective identities as well as the prevailing ideological hegemony. The empirical investigation has been limited to studying the demands and ideas presented by Nordic peace educators, mainly The Swedish School Peace League (SSF), regar- ding peace-educating history teaching. As such, the empirical aim has been to investigate the SSF’s views on the relationship between nationalism and peace education, i.e., how internationalism and pacifism were to be taught, as well as how this understanding affected the League’s ideas regarding history teaching. The results have also been analysed from a gender perspective, based on the as- sumption that contemporary notions of gender in relation to nationalism, war and peace in different ways had an impact upon the content and format of the proposed peace education.         The study shows that the SSF regarded nationalism as the very foundation and prerequisite for any peace education. SSF thus tried to reconcile nationalism, internationalism and pacifism under one and the same ideological approach; “patriotic pacifism”, which in turn strongly influenced the endorsed peace-educating history teaching. Furthermore, the study highlights boys’ central role in the peace education project, which essentially set the long-term goal of creating a new pacifist and internationally oriented male ideal and yet, despite these aims, continued an intimate association with the “national”. Key concepts in SSF’s peace education were unite and supplement, and thereby they redefined central meanings of hegemonic nationalism. SSF’s patriotic pacifism and its impact on the association's demands for a peace-educating history teaching can best be described as an “intra-hegemonic counterforce”.  === Historia utan gräns: Den internationella historieboksrevisionen 1919-2009
author Nilsson, Ingela
author_facet Nilsson, Ingela
author_sort Nilsson, Ingela
title Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
title_short Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
title_full Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
title_fullStr Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
title_full_unstemmed Nationalism i fredens tjänst : Svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
title_sort nationalism i fredens tjänst : svenska skolornas fredsförening, fredsfostran och historieundervisning 1919-1939
publisher Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier
publishDate 2015
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